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7.1

SteVe: Unauthorized EV Charging Session Termination

CVE-2026-28230
Summary

SteVe, an EV charging station management system, has a security flaw that allows any charger to terminate another's active session. This means an attacker can shut down sessions on other chargers without permission. To fix this, update SteVe to version 3.11.1 or later.

What to do

No fix is available yet. Check with your software vendor for updates.

Affected software
VendorProductAffected versionsFix available
steve-community steve <= 3.11.0
Original title
SteVe is an open-source EV charging station management system. In versions up to and including 3.11.0, when a charger sends a StopTransaction message, SteVe looks up the transaction solely by trans...
Original description
SteVe is an open-source EV charging station management system. In versions up to and including 3.11.0, when a charger sends a StopTransaction message, SteVe looks up the transaction solely by transactionId (a sequential integer starting from 1) without verifying that the requesting charger matches the charger that originally started the transaction. Any authenticated charger can terminate any other charger’s active session across the entire network. The root cause is in OcppServerRepositoryImpl.getTransaction() which queries only by transactionId with no chargeBoxId ownership check. The validator checks that the transaction exists and is not already stopped but never verifies identity. As an attacker controlling a single registered charger I could enumerate sequential transaction IDs and send StopTransaction messages targeting active sessions on every other charger on the network simultaneously. Combined with FINDING-014 (unauthenticated SOAP endpoints), no registered charger is even required — the attack is executable with a single curl command requiring only a known chargeBoxId. Commit 7f169c6c5b36a9c458ec41ce8af581972e5c724e contains a fix for the issue.
nvd CVSS3.1 6.3
nvd CVSS4.0 7.1
Vulnerability type
CWE-284 Improper Access Control
Published: 26 Feb 2026 · Updated: 12 Mar 2026 · First seen: 6 Mar 2026